Games like Spirit Island
If Spirit Island is your kind of game, the closest matches are One Deck Dungeon, Sentinels of the Multiverse and Aeon's End — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its tactical positioning matters, writing quality is exceptional and atmospheric. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Spirit Island is a cooperative strategy game released in 2020 by Handelabra Games Inc. Players take on the roles of elemental spirits defending their island from invading colonizers. The game features card-drafting, deck-building, procedural generation, role selection, and variable objectives, supporting asymmetric cooperative play with a massive campaign length that requires sit-down sessions. Players describe the experience as atmospheric and immersive, highlighting high replayability through different spirit and adversary combinations, with tactical positioning being a key consideration. The game runs at a challenging difficulty level and is playable on Steam Deck, currently holding a 91% positive rating from 1,084 Steam reviews at $9.99.
About Spirit Island: Become the spirits of the land, and defend the island from colonizing Invaders spreading blight and destruction! Your spirits work with the native islanders to increase your power and drive the invading colonists from your island in this strategic area-control game.
Players who liked Spirit Island also play
Steam players who put hours into Spirit Island also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
One Deck Dungeon
WHY THIS
Top pick for Spirit Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Spirit Island.
The hit roguelike adventure that captures all the fun of a dungeon crawl in a single deck of cards!
Sentinels of the Multiverse
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and an immersive mood with Spirit Island.
Second-strongest match for Spirit Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Spirit Island.
You've never played a comic book like this! Control a team of heroes battling evil villains across dynamic environments. Play out epic comic book battles come to life in this exciting adaptation of the hit card game.
Aeon's End
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and an atmospheric mood with Spirit Island.
Third-strongest match for Spirit Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Spirit Island.
Deck building with a twist! Lead a team of mages against the Nameless in this magic-based card battle game and save the city of Gravehold!
Dune: Imperium
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and an atmospheric mood with Spirit Island.
Ranked #4 for Spirit Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Spirit Island.
The award-winning board game of strategy and intrigue in the iconic universe of Dune. The Spice must flow.
Wingspan
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Spirit Island.
Ranked #5 for Spirit Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Spirit Island.
Wingspan is a relaxing, award-winning strategy card game about birds for 1 to 5 players. Each bird you play extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your three habitats. Your goal is to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves.
Tabletop Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Spirit Island.
Ranked #6 for Spirit Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Spirit Island.
Tabletop Simulator is the only simulator where you can let your aggression out by flipping the table! There are no rules to follow: just you, a physics sandbox, and your friends. Make your own online board games or play the thousands of community created mods. Unlimited gaming possibilities!
Viractal: Will You Trust Your Party?
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Spirit Island.
Ranked #7 for Spirit Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Spirit Island.
A deckbuilding board game RPG where every roll shapes your strategy.
Keep the Heroes Out
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Spirit Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Spirit Island.
An asymmetric, cooperative dungeon defense game for 1-4 players where you play as the monsters protecting their hard earned treasures against invading hordes of looters (so-called heroes) trying to steal it.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Spirit Island at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Spirit Island on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Spirit Island.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Spirit Island on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Spirit Island.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Spirit Island on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Spirit Island.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Spirit Island on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Spirit Island.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Spirit Island on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Spirit Island.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Spirit Island on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Spirit Island.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Spirit Island on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Spirit Island.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Spirit Island on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Spirit Island.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Spirit Island.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Spirit Island.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Spirit Island.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Spirit Island.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Spirit Island.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Spirit Island.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Handelabra Games Inc.
Other recommendable Steam games by Handelabra Games Inc., ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Sentinels of the Multiverse
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and an immersive mood with Spirit Island.
Another title from Handelabra Games Inc., the studio behind Spirit Island. Shares Strategy and Indie with Spirit Island.
You've never played a comic book like this! Control a team of heroes battling evil villains across dynamic environments. Play out epic comic book battles come to life in this exciting adaptation of the hit card game.
One Deck Dungeon
WHY THIS
Another title from Handelabra Games Inc., the studio behind Spirit Island. Shares Strategy and Indie with Spirit Island.
The hit roguelike adventure that captures all the fun of a dungeon crawl in a single deck of cards!
Aeon's End
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and an atmospheric mood with Spirit Island.
Another title from Handelabra Games Inc., the studio behind Spirit Island. Shares Strategy and Indie with Spirit Island.
Deck building with a twist! Lead a team of mages against the Nameless in this magic-based card battle game and save the city of Gravehold!
Bottom of the 9th
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Spirit Island.
Another title from Handelabra Games Inc., the studio behind Spirit Island. Shares Strategy and Indie with Spirit Island.
Play the most exciting moment of baseball in this fast-paced dice and card game!
Sentinels of Earth-Prime
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Spirit Island.
Another title from Handelabra Games Inc., the studio behind Spirit Island. Shares Strategy and Indie with Spirit Island.
Control a new team of heroes battling evil villains across dynamic environments. Play out epic comic book battles come to life in this exciting adaptation of the hit card game.
One Deck Galaxy
WHY THIS
Another title from Handelabra Games Inc., the studio behind Spirit Island. Shares Strategy and Indie with Spirit Island.
Roll your dice and cleverly use them to build up your civilization from its humble homeworld, growing to create a Federation spanning countless star systems.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
One Deck Dungeon
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Spirit Island.
The hit roguelike adventure that captures all the fun of a dungeon crawl in a single deck of cards!
Aeon's End
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and an atmospheric mood with Spirit Island.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Spirit Island.
Deck building with a twist! Lead a team of mages against the Nameless in this magic-based card battle game and save the city of Gravehold!
Dune: Imperium
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and an atmospheric mood with Spirit Island.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Spirit Island.
The award-winning board game of strategy and intrigue in the iconic universe of Dune. The Spice must flow.
Wingspan
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Spirit Island.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Spirit Island.
Wingspan is a relaxing, award-winning strategy card game about birds for 1 to 5 players. Each bird you play extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your three habitats. Your goal is to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves.
Frequently asked about Spirit Island
- Does Spirit Island run on Steam Deck?
- Spirit Island is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Spirit Island cost?
- Spirit Island is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Spirit Island have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Spirit Island supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Spirit Island?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Spirit Island are One Deck Dungeon, Sentinels of the Multiverse, Aeon's End.
- Who developed Spirit Island?
- Spirit Island was developed by Handelabra Games Inc..
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